Poor Things' Fans Furious with Jimmy Kimmel After He Humiliated Emma Stone
The Academy Awards host took a verbal shot at Stone’s Oscar-winning Poor Things role, and the actress really didn’t seem to like it after the previous controversy.
Summary:
- Emma Stone ’s Poor Things has a controversial reputation for showing several adult scenes featuring a woman with a child’s brain.
- Jimmy Kimmel, the Oscars host, joked that most scenes from Poor Things were not allowed to be shown at the ceremony, upsetting star Emma Stone.
- Despite that, Poor Things won four Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Emma Stone.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things sparked a lot of controversy due to its peculiar sexual relationships, if we were to put it very mildly. Recently, Emma Stone won the Best Actress Academy Award for her lead part in this film, but her professional triumph was somewhat ruined by the ceremony’s host, Jimmy Kimmel, who took a shot at Poor Things and frustrated Stone.
Poor Things Has Questionable Reputation
Some movies are controversial for rather innocent reasons: because they flopped at the box office; because their actors did or said something weird; because they include one too many adult scenes… Poor Things is closer to the latter category, but there’s a massive twist that made most viewers and critics hate the movie instantly.
In Poor Things, a late young woman was brought back from the dead, but the brain of her unborn baby was used instead of hers. This effectively created a clueless infant with the body of a fully adult woman… And some men didn’t hesitate to take advantage of it as Emma Stone’s character slept with many throughout the film.
It’s easy to see why Poor Things immediately sparked a controversy. However, the movie went on to win four Oscars, including Best Actress for Emma Stone.
Jimmy Kimmel Upset Emma Stone at the Ceremony
The host of the Academy Awards, Jimmy Kimmel notoriously made several jokes this year that went underappreciated, but his quip at Emma Stone’s Poor Things was arguably among the worst: the actress seemed genuinely upset by his words.
Jimmy Kimmel joked that the few scenes in the Best Picture nominee montage were in fact the only scenes in Poor Things they were allowed to show, taking a shot at the movie’s “indecency,” as many called it. Emma Stone reacted by seemingly mouthing the word “pr*ck” under her breath and looked frustrated by such a presentation.
Regardless of its controversial scenes and Jimmy Kimmel’s upsetting joke, Poor Things went on to win four Academy Awards this year, namely: Best Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Make-up and Hairstyling.